"""Billboard"" pop chart and spent a week at #1 on the easy listening chart in 1974. ""The Sting"" was set in the 1930s, a full generation after the end of ragtime's mainstream popularity, thus giving the inaccurate impression that ragtime music was popular at that time. The Recording Industry Association of America ranked it #10 on its ""Songs of the Century"" list. ""The Entertainer"" is sub-titled ""A Rag Time Two Step"", which was a form of dance popular until about 1911, and a style which was common among rags written at the time. Its structure is: Intro–AA–BB–A–CC–Intro2–DD. It is primarily"
"The Entertainer (song) ""The Entertainer"" is a single by singer Billy Joel released as the only single from his 1974 album ""Streetlife Serenade"". The song peaked at #34 on the US charts, a Top 40 hit for Joel that year. The song is a cynical and somewhat satirical look at the fleeting fame of a musician and fickle public tastes (""Today I am your champion / I may have won your hearts / But I know the game / You'll forget my name / And I won't be here / in another year / if I don't stay on the"
"on their backs as an audition technique. France Vinyl 7"" Single () UK Vinyl 7"" Single () UK Vinyl 12"" Single () The Entertainer (The Belle Stars song) ""The Entertainer"" is a 1983 song by English pop/new wave band The Belle Stars. It was the band's tenth single overall and fourth and final to fail to chart. The song has the singer questioning about how entertainers express themselves through music and how one can live as a ""dark recluse"" or ""recluso"" as the song depicts. It turned out to be the fourth and final single of the band to fail"
"The Entertainer (The Belle Stars song) ""The Entertainer"" is a 1983 song by English pop/new wave band The Belle Stars. It was the band's tenth single overall and fourth and final to fail to chart. The song has the singer questioning about how entertainers express themselves through music and how one can live as a ""dark recluse"" or ""recluso"" as the song depicts. It turned out to be the fourth and final single of the band to fail to chart, which caused tension in the band, making four members quit in 1984, after the release of 80's Romance. The music"
"The Entertainer (film) The Entertainer is a 1960 drama film directed by Tony Richardson, based on the stage play of the same name by John Osborne. It stars Laurence Olivier as a failing third-rate music-hall stage performer who tries to keep his career going even as the music-hall tradition fades into history and his personal life falls apart. The film was adapted by Osborne and Nigel Kneale from Osborne's play, and was produced by Harry Saltzman. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role (Olivier). It was filmed on location in the Lancashire seaside"
"Run"" and ""Bananas"". In addition, Hamlisch co-wrote the song ""California Nights"" (also with Liebling), which was recorded by Lesley Gore for her 1967 hit album of the same name. The Bob Crewe-produced single peaked at No. 16 on the Hot 100 in March 1967, two months after Gore had performed the song on the ""Batman"" television series, in which she guest-starred as an accomplice to Julie Newmar's Catwoman. Among his better-known works during the 1970s were adaptations of Scott Joplin's ragtime music for the motion picture ""The Sting"", including its theme song, ""The Entertainer"". It hit No. 1 on ""Billboard""s"
"Score and Adaptation on April 2, 1974. His version of ""The Entertainer"" reached #3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and the American Top 40 music chart on May 18, 1974, prompting ""The New York Times"" to write, ""the whole nation has begun to take notice."" Thanks to the film and its score, Joplin's work became appreciated in both the popular and classical music worlds, becoming (in the words of music magazine ""Record World""), the ""classical phenomenon of the decade."" In the United States, ""The Entertainer"" is one of many songs commonly played by ice cream trucks to attract attention. The"
"(which includes a downward slide on the synth) and the vocals of Verse 3 are completely omitted, while the instrumentation of Verse 3 (featuring the steel guitar) does appear, but earlier. On some of the singles released for ""The Entertainer"" the song was b-sided with ""The Mexican Connection"". The Entertainer (song) ""The Entertainer"" is a single by singer Billy Joel released as the only single from his 1974 album ""Streetlife Serenade"". The song peaked at #34 on the US charts, a Top 40 hit for Joel that year. The song is a cynical and somewhat satirical look at the fleeting"
"hit ""The Entertainer"". The single eventually reached Platinum status from the RIAA for sales of over 1 million copies in the United States. The song is a cynical look at the music industry as a publicist/manager begs the protagonist to remain hip for the younger crowd (""What's the matter with the car I'm driving?"" / ""Can't you tell that it's out of style?""), and the protagonist's refusal to change, claiming his music will remain relevant regardless of his appearance. The song was a reaction by Joel at the new music genres that were around in the late 1970s (punk, funk,"
"popular music shows. Joel's songwriting began attracting more attention; in 1974 Helen Reddy recorded ""You're My Home"" (""Piano Man""). In 1974, Joel recorded his second Columbia album in Los Angeles, ""Streetlife Serenade"". His manager at the time was Jon Troy, an old friend from the New York neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant; Troy would soon be replaced by Joel's wife Elizabeth. ""Streetlife Serenade"" contains references to suburbia and the inner city. It is perhaps best known for ""The Entertainer"", a No. 34 hit in the US. Upset that ""Piano Man"" had been significantly cut for radio play, Joel wrote ""The Entertainer"" as"
"came the release and Grammy Award for The New England Ragtime Ensemble's recording of Joplin's ""Red Back Book."" Finally, with the release of the motion picture ""The Sting"" in 1973, which had a Marvin Hamlisch soundtrack of Joplin tunes edited by Gunther Schuller, ragtime was brought to a wide audience. Hamlisch's rendering of Joplin's 1902 rag ""The Entertainer"" won an Academy Award, and was an American Top 40 hit in 1974, reaching No. 3 on May 18. Ragtime composers of the mid- to late-20th century include Max Morath, William Bolcom, Trebor Tichenor, David Thomas Roberts, and Reginald Robinson. Many modern"
"moment when a con artist finishes the ""play"" and takes the mark's money. If a con is successful, the mark does not realize he has been cheated until the con men are long gone. The film is played out in distinct sections with old-fashioned title cards, the lettering and illustrations rendered in a style reminiscent of the ""Saturday Evening Post"". The film is noted for its anachronistic use of ragtime, particularly the melody ""The Entertainer"" by Scott Joplin, which was adapted (along with others by Joplin) for the movie by Marvin Hamlisch (and a top-ten chart single for Hamlisch when"
"screenplay for the film. While ""Look Back in Anger"" was about an angry young man, ""The Entertainer"" was about an angry middle-aged man. Osborne then decided to adapt ""The Entertainer"", and co-wrote it again with Kneale. Richardson was once again assigned to direct the film, while Canadian producer Harry Saltzman produced it. Olivier reprised his role as Archie Rice, along with Brenda de Banzie, who played Phoebe, his hapless wife. They were the only members of the original cast to reprise their roles in the film adaptation. Joan Plowright replaced Dorothy Tutin, the original actress who portrayed Jean in the"
"absorbed into the main company in 1970) re-released his previously recorded material from the mid-1960s, as well. All of this success led the CMA to name him Entertainer of the Year in 1974. In the same year he performed the Academy Award-nominated theme song ""I Feel Love (Benji's Theme)"" from the film ""Benji."" Rich had three more top-five hits in 1975, but though he was at the peak of his popularity, Rich began to drink heavily, causing considerable problems off-stage. Rich's destructive personal behavior famously culminated at the CMA awards ceremony for 1975, when he presented the award for Entertainer"
"Billboard (North America) Singles – Billboard (North America) Entertainer of the Year Entertainer of the Year is the twenty-first studio album by American country music singer-songwriter Loretta Lynn. It was released on February 26, 1973, by MCA Records. This was Lynn's first album with MCA following Decca's consolidation into the MCA label. This album was titled after Lynn received the ""Entertainer of the Year"" award from the Country Music Association the previous year, becoming the first woman to win that award. The album peaked at No. 1 on the ""Billboard"" Top Country Albums chart, becoming her fourth album to top"
"the Entertainer (""Johnson Family Vacation"") co-starring in a blaxploitation version of ""Frankenstein"" as Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, Frankie Muniz (""Agent Cody Banks 2"") returning in a sketch with Stephnie Weir's Dr. Kylie Johnson, Tom Bergeron in a parody of his show ""Hollywood Squares"", and Groundlings alumnus Jennifer Coolidge. Mo Collins announced that she would leave the show at the end of the 9th season. The title sequence begins with the ""Mad TV"" logo appearing above the Los Angeles skyline. The theme song, performed by the hip-hop group Heavy D & the Boyz, begins and each repertory cast member is introduced alphabetically,"
"for a film project he was working on: ""The Sting"". Both men turned down the request because of previous commitments. Instead Hill found Marvin Hamlisch available, and brought him into the project as composer. Hamlisch lightly adapted Joplin's music for ""The Sting"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Original Song Score and Adaptation on April 2, 1974. His version of ""The Entertainer"" reached number 3 on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and the American Top 40 music chart on May 18, 1974, prompting ""The New York Times"" to write, ""The whole nation has begun to take notice."" Thanks"
"first production of the play when the play moved to the West End Theatre. Olivier, who had a disintegrating marriage with his wife Vivien Leigh (whom he had married in 1940), married Plowright in March 1961. Roger Livesey was cast as Archie's father Billy, despite being only one year older than Olivier. George Relph, the actor who originated the role in the play, died in April 1960. Alan Bates played Archie's cynical son Frank. The film was filmed on location in the Lancashire seaside town of Morecambe. The Entertainer (film) The Entertainer is a 1960 drama film directed by Tony"
"show's third main title theme. His television credits are extensive, including scoring the series ""Hawaii Five-O"", ""The Bionic Woman"", ""Mrs. Columbo"", ""The Eddie Capra Mysteries"", and ""Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"", as well as television movies, such as ""The Elevator"" (1974), ""Friendly Persuasion"" (1975), ""Murder at the World Series"" (1977), """" (1977), ""Superdome"" (1978), ""The Time Machine"" (1978) and the 1982 film ""The Executioner's Song"", starring Tommy Lee Jones. Scoring music for the 1981 television movie ""Hellinger's Law"" reunited him with ""Kojak"" veteran and friend Telly Savalas, and Cacavas also went on to score Savalas's made for TV ""Dirty"
"house is not known. Based on its style, it is estimated to have been built around 1860, and is known to have been standing in 1874. It is a typical tenant rowhouse built in the city during this period. It is significant as the only known surviving residence associated with African-American composer Scott Joplin (c. 1867-1917). Joplin lived here from 1900 to 1903. While living here, he wrote what is perhaps his best-known piece, ""The Entertainer,"" which earned new recognition for the composer, 56 years after his death, when it was used as theme music in the 1973 film, ""The"
"That's Entertainment! (song) ""That's Entertainment!"" is a popular song with music written by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz. The song was published in 1952 and was written especially for the 1953 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical film ""The Band Wagon"". The song is performed in the film by Jack Buchanan supported by Fred Astaire, Nanette Fabray, and Oscar Levant. In 2004, the song finished at #45 in AFI's 100 Years...100 Songs survey of top tunes in American cinema. Since the movie, the song has become an anthem for Hollywood and theater in general, being used as an opening number in many"
"Holm as Jean and Bertie Carvel as Frank. In 1960, a paperback novelization by John Burke was published by Four Square Books to coincide with the release of the film. Though the attribution line says ""based on the play"", it is actually based on the screenplay by Osborne and Nigel Kneale. The Entertainer (play) The Entertainer is a three-act play by John Osborne, first produced in 1957. His first play, ""Look Back in Anger"", had attracted mixed notices but a great deal of publicity. Having depicted an ""angry young man"" in the earlier play, Osborne wrote at Laurence Olivier's request"
"Attractions. In 2004, ""Rolling Stone"" magazine ranked this version of the song as the 284th best song of all time. John Lennon quotes the song in his 1980 ""Rolling Stone"" interview with Jonathan Cott. A version of the song was included on the soundtrack album for the film ""The Bodyguard"", which sold 17 million copies in the United States alone. This version was performed by jazz singer Curtis Stigers, who also used it as a B-side to the single ""Sleeping with the Lights On"" from his eponymous debut album, which had been released the year before. According to Will Birch's"
"The Entertainer (play) The Entertainer is a three-act play by John Osborne, first produced in 1957. His first play, ""Look Back in Anger"", had attracted mixed notices but a great deal of publicity. Having depicted an ""angry young man"" in the earlier play, Osborne wrote at Laurence Olivier's request about an angry middle-aged man in ""The Entertainer"". Its main character is Archie Rice, a failing music-hall performer. The first performance was given on 10 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre, London. That theatre was known for its commitment to new and nontraditional drama, and the inclusion of a West"
"Entertainment ( ). DVDs were released in the PAL format by Umbrella Entertainment in 2003 () and again in 2007 (). The film is a part of Shout! Factory's ""Roger Corman Cult Classics"" series, reissued on DVD in May 2010. Shout! Factory released the film with exclusive content on Blu-ray on May 11, 2010. A soundtrack album was released around the same time, but included only a limited number of songs from the film. The two main Ramones songs in the film—the title song and ""I Want You Around""—were recorded by Ed Stasium but remixed by Phil Spector for the"
"Commercial of 1970: Cresta - Singing Polar Bear (actually aired in 1972) Host: Britt Ekland Host: David Cassidy PIF of 1972: Learn to Swim Host: Noddy Holder Flashback Commercial of 1973: Vymura Wallpaper Host: Roobarb & Custard. Opening titles: ""You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"" by Bachman Turner Overdrive. Host: Dennis Waterman Host: Kermit the Frog. Opening titles: ""Dancing Queen"" by ABBA. Ending credits: ""Young Hearts Run Free"" by Candi Staton. Host: Carrie Fisher. Opening titles: ""Star Wars Theme"" by Meco. Host: Lynda Carter. Opening credits: ""Blame It On the Boogie"" by The Jacksons. Ending credits: ""Teenage Kicks"" by The Undertones."
"""Doctor Who"", a BBC series in which he formerly played the titular character). The use of the opening theme in the 1973 film ""The Exorcist"" gained the record considerable publicity and introduced the work to a broader audience. Along with a number of other Oldfield pieces the theme was used in the 1979 NASA movie ""The Space Movie"". It has gained cultural significance as a 'haunting theme', partly due to the association with ""The Exorcist"", and has been sampled by many other artists, such as Janet Jackson on the title track of her album ""The Velvet Rope"". In television it"
"Entertainment (song) ""Entertainment"" is a song by French rock band Phoenix from their fifth album ""Bankrupt!"" and the soundtrack album of the 2013 American heist thriller film ""Now You See Me"". It is the lead single from the album and premiered on 18 February 2013 with airplay on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe show. Following the premiere, the single was sent to alternative radio, where it impacted in the United States during the week of 26 February. The cover for the single, released on 19 February 2013, features the image of a Mai Tai against a gray background. ""Entertainment"" features"
"majority of the film contains library music from other sources. One particular piece of music, heard in the opening titles, is ""The Awakening"", a Johnny Pearson composition that was recorded in 1967 (three years after production on this film began). While largely familiar to U.S. audiences for its use in this film, it is otherwise known to British viewers as the theme for ITN's ""News at Ten"". In a twist of irony, another well-known Pearson composition, ""Heavy Action"" (also known as the theme of ""Monday Night Football""), served as the theme to the syndicated SFM Holiday Network, which ran this"
"was adopted as the theme song for the film. The Countdown to Extinction attraction at Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park was renamed and re-themed to the film. It is now known as DINOSAUR. The storyline was always intended to tie in with the film, considering the usage of a Carnotaurus as the ride's antagonist and Aladar as the Iguanodon that guests rescue from the meteor and take back into the present, seen wandering the Dino Institute in Security Camera footage seen on monitors in the attraction's unloading area. George Scribner was the original director of the film, he spent two"
"the opening theme of the 1978 film, ""National Lampoon's Animal House"". In the 1967 film ""Bedazzled"", Dudley Moore, as a pretentious pseudo-intellectual Welsh student, and Eleanor Bron lie on the floor listening to the beginning of the Overture on an LP until the record begins to skip (thanks to a scratch deliberately made in the LP by Peter Cook as the Devil earlier in the film). The song Catch a Falling Star, made famous by Perry Como was based on the third melody in just before the Gaudeamus Igitur. Academic Festival Overture Academic Festival Overture (), Op. 80, by Johannes"
"charts""); this theme would be examined in the later song ""It's Still Rock and Roll to Me"". Another verse in the song references the shortening of Joel's song, ""Piano Man"", from 5 minutes and 38 seconds to 3 minutes and 5 seconds to fit a radio slot, referenced by the lyrics ""It was a beautiful song, / but it ran too long / If you're gonna have a hit, you gotta make it fit / So they cut it down to 3:05."" Additionally, the timing printed on the label of the 7"" release of ""The Entertainer"" was 3:05, although the"
"Whittaker, Engelbert Humperdinck (1973 and 2007), Victor Wood (1971), Amália Rodrigues, John Serry Sr. (""Squeeze Play"", 1956), Majida El Roumi Ghazal album 2012, among many others. Eternally (Charles Chaplin song) ""Eternally"" is a song with music by Charles Chaplin, and words by the English lyricists Geoff Parsons and John Turner. The music was initially composed for Charles Chaplin's film ""Limelight"" (1952) titled ""Terry's Theme""; the film won an Oscar for ""Best Original Dramatic Score"" at the 45th Academy Awards in 1973. ""Eternally"" was recorded by Jimmy Young (UK #8, 1953), Vic Damone (U.S. Pop #12, 1953), Li Xianglan (in Chinese"